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What's the big deal? It's public info. AXO was founded with the assistance of James Howe and James Campbell, who were Betas.
I see no special similarity between the 2 rituals.
People always wonder about similarities with the Farmville Four, the fraternity Triads, the Ida Shaw rituals, KS and XO, Beta and AXO, DKE and Sigma Chi, etc. Other than the usual similarities between GLO rituals, they're not much the same at all.
That's not surprising, for a lot of reasons...
If you're creative enough to be able to write a ritual, you're probably not just going to do an exact copy of the one you know over and over. Although it would have been funny if Ida Shaw had written exactly the same ritual for all the groups. It would be like in that movie Bring It On when they realize East Compton High is doing their same cheerleading routine.
If you're a fraternity guy trying to help a bunch of girls write a sorority ritual, you're probably not going to divulge any secrets of your own group. Because let's face it, these guys probably didn't take the girls seriously and were just trying to get a date.
If you're starting a new group, you're probably going to try to differentiate yourself from existing groups on the same campus, so your ritual will reflect that.
And if you're founded as a protest against an existing group, again you're going to have very different beliefs and ideals and therefore very different rituals.
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